The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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